Diana Ionescu wrote:

“In July 2020, three-quarters of Americans told pollsters that being within walking distance of destinations like shops and parks were important to them, yet too many new developments still assume a car-dependent lifestyle.” Consequently, developers are starting to build denser, mixed-use suburbs in an effort to provide both more spacious living quarter...
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Jay Stange wrote:

The Twin Cities are plenty big enough to support healthy transit ridership, but as it turns out, size doesn’t matter in transit. On last week’s Strong Towns Podcast, Jason Slaughter from Not Just Bikes and Strong Towns’ Chuck Marohn sat down to talk about what America keeps getting wrong about public transit...
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Todd Litman wrote:

Automobiles receive the vast majority of transportation funding: about 85 percent of spending by departments of transportation is devoted to roadways—about 95 percent if we also consider expenditures by businesses on government-mandated parking facilities.

This made driving easier and other forms of travel worse. As a result, most North American communities ar...
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Todd Litman wrote:

Creating healthy and sustainable cities: what gets measured, gets done

Billie Giles-Corti, Anne Vernez Moudon, Melanie Lowe, Deepti Adlakha, Ester Cerin, Geoff Boeing, and others

Urban design is key to healthy environments for all

Thiago Herick de Sa, Abraham Mwaura, Cristina Vert, Pierpaolo Mudu, Nathalie Roebbel, Nhan Tran, and others

Mea...
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Strong Towns wrote:

More than $1.2 trillion is queued up to be spent on American infrastructure in the next five years, a huge increase over normal funding cycles. This is an opportunity for local governments to make solid investments in infrastructure, but also a risk that the money could be spent badly, making communities poore...
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Charles Marohn wrote:

And that’s really the core problem commuting culture creates, a challenge that money spent fighting congestion only makes worse: the diffuse development pattern generates more public costs than it builds private wealth. These are low productivity environments, a financial imbalance that no transportation investment will overcome.

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We don’t have the mone...
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Matthew Jacob wrote:

Pittsburgh began implementing the Victor Stanley Relay TM smart waste management system to upgrade to a more efficient waste collection process. Using sensors embedded within their litter receptacles that measure how full the containers are, and then transmit that information to the people responsible for collecting them, the city found a wa...
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Todd Litman wrote:

True sustainability involves more than just environmental protection: it balances environmental, social and economic goals. There is plenty of guidance concerning how to increase environmental sustainability by reducing resource consumption and habitat degradation and a growing body of guidance for achieving social sustainability by creating healthier and more equitable communities, but there is les...
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Diana Ionescu wrote:

Officials in Southern Ontario's Durham Region are implementing green building standards into their development application and review processes, writes Jennifer O'Meara. The rules are designed to encourage developments that "reduce greenhouse gas emissions, build infrastructure that is resilient to future climate change and create a healthier environment for residents, according to ...
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Kea Wilson wrote:

City residents must massively increase the percentage of journeys they take on public transportation and using active modes within 10 years if the world is going to meet its climate targets, a new report argues — but federal governments aren’t stepping up to make it happen.

The new study delivered to climate leader...
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